USA TODAY’s Christine Brennan writes, “At a time when most sports fans possess a working knowledge of the level of cheating in sports due to the use of performance-enhancing drugs, it's quite a commentary on our times that attendance, viewership and revenues in all sports have never been higher” (USA TODAY).

The Baltimore SUN’s Dan Rodricks writes of Baltimore’s decision on whether to build a new arena, “Is Baltimore going to remain a midlevel city with midlevel ambitions and feeble self-esteem, or will it become bigger, bolder and totally major-league?” (Baltimore SUN).